sastre

See also: Sastre

Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsastɾe/ [ˈsas̪.t̪ɾe]
• Rhymes: -astɾe
• Syllabification: sas‧tre

Noun

sastre m (plural sastres)

1. alternative form of xastre

Catalan

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *serḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ḱyéti

Proto-Italic *sarkjō

Latin sarciō

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Latin sartor

Old Catalan sartre

Old Catalan sastre

Catalan sastre

Inherited from Old Catalan sastre, from earlier sartre, from Latin sartor via the nominative.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsas.tɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsas.tɾe]

• Audio (Central):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -astɾe

Noun

sastre m (plural sastres, feminine sastressa, feminine plural sastresses)

1. tailor

Descendants

• →? Gascon: sastre

Further reading

• “sastre”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “sastre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “sastre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “sastre”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Central Bikol

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish sastre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsastɾe/ [ˈsas.tɾe]
• Hyphenation: sas‧tre

Noun

sástre (Basahan spelling ᜐᜐ᜔ᜆ᜔ᜍᜒ)

1. tailor

   Synonym: paratahi

Related terms

• sastreriya

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish sastre (“tailor”), from Old Catalan sastre, from Latin sartor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsastɾe/, [ˈsas̪.t̪ɾe]
• Hyphenation: sas‧tre

Noun

sastre

1. tailor

Old Catalan

Noun

sastre m (plural sastres)

1. alternative form of sartre

Descendants

• Catalan: sastre
• →? Gascon: sastre
• → Old Spanish: sastre, xastre
  • Ladino: shastre / שאסטרי
  • Spanish: sastre (see there for further descendants)
  • →? Asturian: xastre, sastre
  • → Old Galician-Portuguese:
    • Galician: xastre
    • Portuguese: xastre, sastre, chastre

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• xastre

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Catalan sastre. First attested in 1302. Displaced alfayate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsastɾe/

Noun

sastre m (plural sastres)

1. tailor

Descendants

• Ladino: shastre / שאסטרי
• Spanish: sastre (see there for further descendants)
• →? Asturian: xastre, sastre
• → Old Galician-Portuguese:
  • Galician: xastre
  • Portuguese: xastre, sastre, chastre

Portuguese

Noun

sastre m (plural sastres)

1. alternative form of xastre

Further reading

• “sastre”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *serḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ḱyéti

Proto-Italic *sarkjō

Latin sarciō

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Latin sartor

Old Catalan sartre

Old Catalan sastrebor.

Old Spanish sastre

Spanish sastre

Inherited from Old Spanish sastre, from Old Catalan sastre, from earlier sartre, from Latin sartor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsastɾe/ [ˈsas.t̪ɾe]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -astɾe
• Syllabification: sas‧tre

Noun

sastre m or f by sense (plural sastres, feminine sastra, feminine plural sastras)

1. tailor (person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally)

   Synonym: alfayate (uncommon)

Derived terms

• buen sastre
• cajón de sastre
• corto sastre
• será lo que tase un sastre

Descendants

• Chavacano: sastre
• →? Asturian: xastre, sastre
• → Central Bikol: sastre
• → Tagalog: sastre, sasti — obsolete

See also

• modisto, modista

Further reading

• “sastre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• sasti — obsolete

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish sastre, from Old Spanish sastre, borrowed from Old Catalan sastre, from sartre, from Latin sartor.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /sasˈtɾe/ [sɐsˈt̪ɾɛ]
  • Rhymes: -e
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈsastɾe/ [ˈsas.t̪ɾɛ]
• Syllabification: sas‧tre

Noun

sastré or sastre (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜐ᜔ᜆ᜔ᜇᜒ)

1. tailor

   Synonym: mananahi

Related terms

• sastreriya

Further reading

• “sastre”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613), Vocabulario de lengua tagala. El romance castellano puesto primero. Primera, y segunda parte.‎^[2] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish and Classical Tagalog), as directed by Gov. Gen. Juan de Silva, Pila, Laguna: La noble Villa de Pila, por Tomás Pinpin y Domingo Loag., page 546: “Saſtre) Saſti (pc) C. que haçe de veſtir”